Hello, I would like to put a cross-fading image into a table that is my website header. I don't need anything complicated at all, no controls etc, just want 8 images that fit my cell to continuosly crossfade after 3 seconds or so. Found many scripts/plugins/jquery etc but they all seem very complicated for beginners. I've used 'easyrotator' which is so easy to use, but it doesn't seem to have a cross fade on the free mode, just a swipe and i'm sure I can find similar for free. Maybe I'm missing something but I would have thought dreamweaver (being the helpful prog that it is) would have something to do this?

Ideally, I would like it to be continuous regardless of the page people are on. I imagine this is above my head so if too tricky, perhaps it could just be random image fade.

There's definitely lots of ways to do this, but if you're a beginner, I would suggest trying one of the newest Adobe products: Adobe Edge. It's an HTML5/JavaScript/CSS3 Animation tool that you can easily do all of the animation just by dragging and dropping and it will generate all of the code for you for your website! It's in Preview right now, so it's still free for users to try out. You can download the latest version here:

edge.adobe.com

As far as the continuous play regardless of which page you're on, it is a bit tricky, and would require that you load content inside a frame or div separate from the animation itself, instead of reloading the entire page.

If you like, I could send you a quick file that demonstrates crossfade transitions in Adobe Edge that you could look at to see how it works. : )

Well you would want to make sure the dimensions of the 'slideshow' <div> reflect those of your image.

So for instance if your image is 300px x 300px the dimensions should be 332px x 332px. (see below) Why the extra 32px - because this is allocated for the 15px left/right/top/bottom padding and 1 px border around the image that you see on the example page.